In the 1920s, Milena defies her father's wishes to become a doctor and instead pursues her passion for writing. She elopes to Vienna, starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka, and later returns to Prague where she befriends and translates his work.
Milena
A free-spirited young woman named Milena trades in her father's plans for a medical career to pursue her passion for writing, leaving Prague behind to start fresh in Vienna with her husband, a Jewish music critic named Ernst Pollak.
